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Paul Mackerras d24ea8a733 KVM: PPC: Book3S: Simplify external interrupt handling
Currently we use two bits in the vcpu pending_exceptions bitmap to
indicate that an external interrupt is pending for the guest, one
for "one-shot" interrupts that are cleared when delivered, and one
for interrupts that persist until cleared by an explicit action of
the OS (e.g. an acknowledge to an interrupt controller).  The
BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL bit is used for one-shot interrupt requests
and BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL_LEVEL is used for persisting interrupts.

In practice BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL never gets used, because our
Book3S platforms generally, and pseries in particular, expect
external interrupt requests to persist until they are acknowledged
at the interrupt controller.  That combined with the confusion
introduced by having two bits for what is essentially the same thing
makes it attractive to simplify things by only using one bit.  This
patch does that.

With this patch there is only BOOK3S_IRQPRIO_EXTERNAL, and by default
it has the semantics of a persisting interrupt.  In order to avoid
breaking the ABI, we introduce a new "external_oneshot" flag which
preserves the behaviour of the KVM_INTERRUPT ioctl with the
KVM_INTERRUPT_SET argument.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2018-10-09 16:04:27 +11:00
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arch Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-26 11:25:21 -07:00
bpf tools/bpf: bpftool, add xskmap in map types 2018-09-02 22:30:39 +02:00
build Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-08-15 15:04:25 -07:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio
hv Tools: hv: vss: fix loop device detection 2018-07-03 13:02:33 +02:00
iio iio: Add modifier for DUV light 2018-07-23 19:18:10 +01:00
include tools: introduce test_and_clear_bit 2018-08-22 16:48:36 +02:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: re-animate display of dead guests 2018-08-30 17:15:12 +02:00
laptop
leds
lib Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-26 11:25:21 -07:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Rename litmus tests to comply to norm7 2018-07-17 09:30:36 +02:00
nfsd
objtool Kbuild updates for v4.19 2018-08-15 12:09:03 -07:00
pci tools: PCI: Add MSI-X support 2018-07-19 11:47:13 +01:00
pcmcia
perf KVM: PPC: Book3S: Simplify external interrupt handling 2018-10-09 16:04:27 +11:00
power treewide: convert ISO_8859-1 text comments to utf-8 2018-08-23 18:48:43 -07:00
scripts
spi
testing selftests: pmtu: detect correct binary to ping ipv6 addresses 2018-08-31 23:14:20 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb tools: usb: ffs-test: Fix build on big endian systems 2018-07-17 10:12:51 +03:00
virtio tools/virtio: add kmalloc_array stub 2018-07-27 16:54:40 +03:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: fix "defined but not used" warning 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
wmi
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